Street Lighting Control based on LonWorks

Power Line Communication SCADA

ABSTRACT:

Street lighting is used to illuminate the roads we drive on, the pedestrian paths we
walk down, and the public areas where we gather. It provides us with safe roads,
stylish and inviting public areas, and enhanced security in our homes, businesses and
city centers. Unfortunately, while traditional public ighting systems provide
significant benefits to all our lives, they do so at significant expense to the
community. They’re usually very costly to operate, however, and they use a lot of
money that almost 40 percent of a city’s electricity spending.

Public lighting managers have known that they could lower the operating costs of
their systems if they could cost effectively collect the critical data needed to make
better planning decisions. Lighting engineers have conceived of new designs to
improve public safety and reduce energy consumption only to be stymied by an
inability to economically control every luminaire in the system. This paper describes
street lighting control system based on LonWorks power line communication on
demand market.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:
DESRIPTION:
Streetlight segment controllers located in the feeder pillar. The controller is the
gateway between the central streetlight monitoring software and the ballast nodes.
Thus, streetlight segment controllers must support standard communication layers
including RS232,TCP/IP over RF, ADSL, WiFi, and CDMA and provide a
standardized PC interface to receive data, send commands, and configure the
streetlight controller’s services.
Power Line LonWorks nodes must be able to measure and send data such as lamp
status, lamp level, faults, accumulated energy consumption of the streetlight automatic
light and ON-OFF status over the power line network.

AREA OF APPLCATION:
 Corporation and municipal lighting
 Industrial lighting
 Commercial lighting

COST: 6000/-